Rag rolling hair for curls!

Fruball

JenniO wrote: »

if she doesn't take to it you could just plait it and let her sleep in plaits and take those out the next morning. Makes hair curly in a different way but it might suit?

No! She loves it!!! Even the pain of me pulling (by accident) didn't put her off and I said I could stop and take them out if she wanted... but she put up with it and has gone to bed with a head full of fushia pink rags (from my old cut up tshirt!)

I am sure she will be delighted when she has a head full of curls tomorrow

(her only real gripe was that her nightdress didn't match her rags..... omg what will she be like when she is older!!!

tanith

My Mum used to put my curly hair in rags when I was little and I had the most beautiful ringlets next day... I think you can buy some foam things that you can use to do the same job they might be a bit more comfy and you just wind the hair round them then bend them around themselves.. very easy I can't remember where I saw them though..

meritaten

tanith wrote: »

My Mum used to put my curly hair in rags when I was little and I had the most beautiful ringlets next day... I think you can buy some foam things that you can use to do the same job they might be a bit more comfy and you just wind the hair round them then bend them around themselves.. very easy I can't remember where I saw them though..

I know the foam things you mean! but not as comfy as rags because they have a wire inside them!
I had waist length dead straight hair as a child and my mum wanted me to have shirley temple ringlets and I can remember standing there for hours (well it FELT like hours) while she did about two dozen rag curls, damping my hair and curling it up and tieing the rags. Next morning............I had lost half the rags on one side! and the other side looked as if I had stuck my finger in an electric socket! mum cried, as she had to wash my hair again and leave it straight! I was quite relieved as I remember.........hated my hair being messed with...............still do!!!:)

jaxx46

My Gd (3) always begs her Auntie Bev to do this when she stays with us

katholicos

I've often done my DD's hair in rags or in plaits that she has then slept on and it gives her the most gorgeous wavy hair and of course, there are no curling tongues used or other impliments which can damage hair. My DD is now 19 and only the other evening she asked me to plait her hair before she went to bed...we tend to put lots of plaits in rather than 1 long plait. I used to use rags, but often use hair bands if i am plaiting it :-)

Dazi

I used to do this sometimes for my DD when she was doing a dance festival, she never complained that it hurt to sleep in, but then again she was very vain and wanted curly hair :rotfl:

I used to get the rag, grab a bit of hair, tie it at the bottom, roll it up and tie again. Never knew if this was the right way to do it, but it came out well

Gothicfairy

I use to rag my hair each night when I was a teenager as no one would buy me Braun curlers for my birthday (they were the brand of the time back then). A lot of work but a really good effect and much better to sleep in ( I know this now after trying to sleep in those plastic curler thingys).
I use Goth Juice from Lush now and that holds any curl all day.

thriftymoo

Lol i have mad curly hair which ive battled with for years trying to straighten and only decided that i actually like last year! The rag rollers might actually make my hair a bit tamer!!

valk_scot

I had long fine straight hair when I was a teenager and the fashion was for curls back then. My mother wouldn't let me get it permed so I would put it into 20 dampened plaits or so every night and ended up with a huge mass of fluffy ripples instead, lol.

My DD has similar hair now, very fine and prone to breakage. I plait it into one or two plaits every night and she wears it in plaits to school as well. It's the only way she can keep it as long as she does. Long hair tangles in a flash and if we had to comb out both bedhead tangles and day tangles her hair would soon end up a stringy short mess through breakage. In Ye Olde Days no-one ever wore their hair loose to bed, it was always ragged or plaited and tucked up under a cap or such. If anyone is having trouble with young daughters and combing out tangles every morning, try plaits for bed. It really is very sucessful.

lil_me

My mum used to do these for my sister loads, not as often for me, she looked like Shirley temple

Used to always do them slightly damp if I remember right. We got those 'benders' foam things with wires in later, bit spiky to sleep in not as soft as raggies. I remember also wanting a perm when it was in fashion, I have pancake hair but now it's what everyone wants ad I get asked which straighteners I use